Midweek already!

24^th October 2018

Botox is over-rated. What’s wrong with wrinkles. They’re a record of every smile, who’s ever smiled and said “well I’m gonna regret that!”

Well I had a better day yesterday, the coughing is still there but I don’t care!  Fab meetings, brilliant members and I am truly blessed to have the best helpers in the world, then I got home lunchtime to find a letter from Blakemore’s with a £50 voucher to spend on supplies for the Black Country Food Bank, when I checked my emails I’d had a message from Morrison’s saying if I placed a £60 order for delivery Weds/Thurs of this week I could save £12, so I did, I looked for everything that would be useful to the foodbank and was on offer, so their cereals were reduced and things like canned meatballs, I also ordered 23 cartons of orange juice (apparently that’s the maximum I could order!)  I ended up with £93 worth of food for £62 with the savings and voucher – bonus!  Lots of members bought more stuff too so my shelving is filling up again, I was hoping to fill them at least once before Christmas, I’m hoping we may do it twice and possibly get the cash total up to a grand.  I’m doing the raffle tickets for the snuggly crochet blankets, we’re almost at £100 for that, yep fundraising is going well and it’s also a reminder of how lucky I am to have the life I have, despite mom’s condition.  Yes I wish I could do something to help her feel better but I’m not a magician so I can only do what’s possible.

We’re talking socialising this week and the importance of still being able to do it whilst on our weight loss journey, then we’re discussing tactics, there’s no easy solution, no magic tricks but my members are proving to me it’s doable each and every week when they tell me about the wonderful things they’ve done and places they’ve been then they lose weight too. 

I’m thinking I need to use some of that salmon from the freezer today, maybe defrost some white fish too and do the fish pie from the Comfort cookbook, or replace the chicken with salmon in that chicken and pea bake I did last week, or I might just make something up when I get in the kitchen, either way, some of the salmon needs using – you watch I’ll walk in the Co-op this morning and something else will be reduced ;)

Lots of us are struggling to not just be on track but to be bothered to be on track!  What do we do then?  Well for me, I just focus on doing my best to eat as well as I can, if there’s things I’ve fancied for a long time, I’ll use this time to tick them off my list, so I fancy macaroni cheese, thankfully there’s a recipe in the comfort book I think.  Corned beef has too, I have a not so bad recipe for that, ooo pasta and pesto, see all the things I fancy I can still have without breaking the points bank.  Yesterday I had my honey and mustard chicken with mash - that was good, loving that Idahoan mash, really easy and tastes like the real deal. 

 

I’m going to attempt to be productive today starting with walking Alfie, which he is getting impatient for, he’s jumping up me at my desk, if he could take he’d say, it’s light enough out there now to go out!  I felt like a real thicko yesterday, I couldn’t get my head round how the clocks going back would make it lighter morning, I kept saying yeah but it’s dark at 5am when I get up and 5am will now be earlier so it’ll be darker.  No one could make it make sense to me until the last few minutes of my evening meeting when one wonder woman said yes Bev but you won’t get up at 4am, you’ll get up at 5am which because of the change will really be 6am and suddenly it was like the clouds had parted and I’d seen God, it all made sense, I was so relieved, I felt like someone had removed my brain because I couldn’t process it, I felt like that woman who when asked by her boyfriend if she was to have a 12 inch pizza would she have it in 8 slices or 6 and she replies 6 because she couldn’t eat 8, and no matter how hard he tries she doesn’t realise she would still be eating it all!  Or this woman;  https://www.facebook.com/LADbible/videos/2424542854259557/UzpfSTU5NTczMDg2MToxMDE1NjM3NTU1ODU5NTg2Mg/

Right the dogs going to have a panic attack if I don’t go now, here’s to doing what we can with what we’ve got today BeYOUtiful, let’s all be kind to ourselves and maybe work on WHY not why we want to lose weight but WHY we’re doing the overeating, what are we avoiding, what do we really want, what are we distracting ourselves from?

Oh that can be the coaching question because I forgot to do one this morning!